Claire Bennet

Power - Claire has the power of rapid cell regeneration. This means that she can instantly heal almost any injury. She has healed from burns, broken bones, cuts, and has even regrown limbs. Her blood has healing properties, and if injected into another person, can give them the power to heal as well (how long this effect last is undetermined).

As demonstrated by Adam Monroe, who also has this power, Claire will not age.

Weaknesses and Limitations - There seems to be no limit to how much Claire can heal save one, any injury to the part of the brain that gives her this ability seems to negate the power.

Having her head chopped off will do it. An object impaling the section will as well. However, it has been shown that if the object is removed, Claire will eventually heal.

Claire does feel pain, and has stated so, but I'm led to believe that the amount of pain she feels is less than normal people. You wouldn't just voluntarily jump off buildings and chop limbs off for the heck of it, even if you knew you would survive.

"Coolness" factor - 4/10. I actually do not think this power is all that great. The ability to heal quickly is certainly a nice power to have, but stacked up against the other, it isn't anything great. I lowered the ranking even further because I would not want to live forever. Seeing those you live grow old and die would soon become too much for me.

The ability to heal others though is truly "cool" so this power is saved somewhat by this fact.

"Kick Ass" factor - 6/10. Why only a 6? Claire can essentially not die. thus making her very hard to defeat. However, she has no offensive abilities. Therefore, characters with strong offensive abilities could essentially kill Claire by exploiting her weakness. Hiro can just freeze time, walk up to her, and cut her head off. So could pretty much any regular human so long as he knew of the weakness. Claire has by far the strongest defensive ability, so this pushes her up slightly from average.

Nearest Famous Superhero - Wolverine. This is the superhero best known for his "healing factor" Claire actually seems to have an even more enhanced form though as she seems to heal from serious injury even faster and Wolverine is aging.

How I see this Character evolving - I don't see Claire's power evolving all that much. Since it works without thought, she doesn't have the problems that most characters have with needing the confidence to use her abilities. Since she can heal from almost anything and do it quickly, so not much room for growth there.

As a character, Claire obviously has some growing up to do. Claire truly has a pure heart, and almost always has the best of intentions. However, her youth comes through a lot in her decisions, and she has to learn some lessons about life. She is the only original main character in high school, and as such, I see the writer's exploring the problems that not only come with having a power, but dealing with it as one grows into adulthood.

Slight delay in post

I light to be pretty regular in my posting. This would be weekly now, as i do my character analysis. However, things are so hectic post-move right now, I'm going to be a day or two late with it. My next character analysis is going to be our favorite cheerleader Claire and I expect to get it out by the end of the week. Just need a day or two to catch my breath.

Thanks for being patient.

Hiro Nakamura

Power - Chronokinesis. Hiro has the ability to manipulate the space-time continuum. This gives him the power to freeze time and to transport to any location instantly. Not only can he transport himself through physical space, but he cant transport himself through time. This ability seems limitless as he has traveled half-way across the world as well as through several centuries.

"Coolness" factor - 9/10. This is a rating of how "cool" it would be to actually possess this power. Hiro's ability to not only teleport himself instantly to any location and to stop time but to actually travel through time makes this power perhaps the coolest natural ability of any of the evolved humans. If used properly, this makes Hiro perhaps the most powerful evolved human second only to Peter.

"Kick Ass" factor - 9/10. This is a rating of if two evolved humans were to get into a fight, and their powers were used to the utmost of their potential, who would win. Hiro's power to actually stop time would trump almost any other evolved human's power. He could simply stop time, walk up to them, and cut their head off. He could do even one better and go back in time and make sure that particular person was never born.

Weaknesses and Limitations - Hiro's greatest weakness is his own self doubt. Although he has one of the most powerful abilities of any evolved human, he is limited in his use of it by his own mental blocks. Throughout Season 1, we saw Hiro struggle to learn to control his power. On a few occasions he refused to travel through time for fear of not knowing where he would actually end up.

Hiro only seems to be able to teleport objects and people if he is actually touching them.

Thus far, there seems to be only three known serious limitations to Hiro's power. Like other evolved humans, Hiro's power will not work against the Haitian. The other limitation we have seen for Hiro is that he is unable to freeze Peter in time. This is probably an effect of Peter also being able to control the space-time continuum. The third limitation is that it takes serious concentration on Hiro's part to use his powers and he was prevented from using them by Adam Monroe by giving him Opium.

Nearest Famous Superhero -You know, there really isn't one. The closest you are going to get is a very geeky and weak Silver Surfer. Silver Surfer has the ability to manipulate time and space thanks to his power cosmic. Hiro is nowhere near that level, but then again, I've never known Silver Surfer to be able to completely and utterly stop time either. There really aren't too many famous superheros who come anywhere near Hiro's power level simply because his power is too great. There are many who can transport instantly anywhere but very few who have the mastery of time that our Hiro does.


How I see this Character evolving -Hiro is the heart and soul of the Heroes series. I do not think it would be a stretch to say he is perhaps most people favorite character. He has a lovable attitude and a nerdy quality that fans of this genre can really appreciate. He is equipped with one of the more powerful abilities and thus has the potential for some great storytelling.

I have stated in other post that I believe the writer's will take Hiro down a darker path. I have mixed feelings on this one as I really do love how full of life and spirit Hiro is. We have seen glimpses of what Hiro can become both as "Dark" Hiro and what he did to Adam Monroe at the end of Season two. Up until that point, I would say Hiro was the Compass that guided Heroes. His actions were always noble and with the best intentions.

As far as Power's go, I don't see how they can increase Hiro's power much more than they have.
He has been show to have almost limitless control over space and time. If anything, they will need to restrict his power going forward, as to not let him go back in time and fix anything he wants to fix.

Character Analysis

First off, the move went great. I'm back in California and the new job is keeping me busy. It's a good thing that the writer's strike is going on, as I wouldn't have been able to keep up with any new Heroes happenings.

Since we are now faced with no new episodes, I thought I would do something a little bit different. I'm going to take a character and write about them. I will do one character a week for now, and may increase the frequency if I can find time in my busy schedule. If anybody has thoughts or suggestions on what you want to see, feel free to comment.

I will mostly be covering the heroes and my thoughts on them, their powers, and what the future may hold. I will focus at first on some of the bigger, more important characters, but will eventually make my way to some of the lesser ones. I hope to put the first one out very soon, and then follow it up every week.

Back Next Week

I'm in the middle of a big move across country, so there won't be any post until next week. As Heroes is over, might try something new anyway. Everyone have a good week, and see you all back next week!

Sylar - How does he keep getting away

Just a quick post, but I deep thinking, how does Sylar keep getting away?

In season one, he got away even after he was shot by Noah Bennet. The man was shot, yet was still able to get away from the Haitian who tried to run him down. This is the same Haitian who looked pretty athletic chasing down Peter a few weeks ago and someone who could use his powers to make sure Sylar couldn't use any of his to get away.

Then Sylar miraculously escapes Kirby Plaza after being run through with a sword by Hiro. In this case, I could accept the fact that he was probably dragged away by someone interested in saving him, so I'll give a pass here.

But just this past week, how did he manage to get away again? He was hit by a lightning bold delivered by Elle and was thrown through a glass door. I've known someone who has gone through a glass door. You don't just get up and run. Yet somehow Sylar not only is able to get up, but he is able to run away before Elle can get within distance to throw another bolt at him.

Maybe this is one of Sylar's hidden powers. Maybe he has the ability to make miraculous get aways.

Hiro's Revenge

When I saw what Hiro did to Adam, by trapping him in the coffin and burying him six-feet under, all I could say to myself was, "How medieval was that?" I didn't think Hiro had it in him.
This is a very interesting turning point for Hiro. Up until this point, Hiro was the happy-go-lucky-time-freezing geek we have grown to love. But something has now fundamentally changed with Hiro. The death of his father brought great sadness to him. The realization that it was Adam seemed to instill a deep sense of guilt that he did not stop him sooner.


This will probably be the start of this timelines "Dark Hiro". Remember what set off Hiro in that timeline, it was the death of Ando. As Peter said, "Your remember how he used to be. All full of hope and Optimism. It went away the day you died." I don't think Hiro will go that far down the road, he seems to have accepted the death of his father, but it still will lead to his being the more serious version of Hiro. I for one am excited about it. While I think the "geeky" Hiro is great, and I hope he always maintains some of that, I also am eager to see him develop his power and have the confidence and ability to control his powers.

What did you think of what Hiro did to Adam? Do you think its a sign of things to come?